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The Senqu Orange Gariep Expedition Journal - The View
Saturday, 16 January 2010
The view from the Ledges Cave is tremendous, the cave is kind of how i expected it to be. More of a ledgy-square-roofed shelter. Great place to be when the weather is good. I am not too sure if i want to be this exposed in a classic Drakensberg Thunder Storm.
En-route here we scouted the source, the first gorge of the entire river system, were blown away by the variety of flowers, birdlife, the swampy marshy landscape with mist rolling in occasionally from South Africa.
Little streams, rivulets, seepage of the soaked mountainside slowly collects to form the start of this 2000km+ river.
Ine had a nap in the cave, i just sat there looking out at the ever-changing cloud formations. Occasionally the mist rolled in bringing the visibility to 2 or 3 metres. A few little flows of water coming out the rock wall keeps us supplied with virgin water. It is actually coming through the ground from the soaked source above the Ledges Cave.
Rob